Conditional Accepts

Revision

Please address any remaining issues raised by the editor and make your manuscript revisions accordingly.In addition to undertaking revisions, please prepare a brief memorandum responding to the comments of the reviewers and detailing the changes you have made in the manuscript. You should include this memo in the Editorial Manager box where it asks you to "Enter Comments" during the submission routine. The revised paper and revisions memo will be reviewed by the editor, in house, and will not be sent back to external reviewers except in exceptional circumstances.

Formatting

Carefully prepare your manuscript so that it addresses any final issues we raised in the (tentative "in-house") acceptance letter and that it conforms to JOP style requirements (see The JOP Style Guide).Please double check that:

All citations in the text are listed in the bibliography.

All grammatical errors and typos are corrected, and every line is double spaced, including the references.

The title of the paper is relatively short and to the point.

The paper length is no longer than agreed upon in the decision letter.

You have provided a short title of the article suitable for the running header. This short title should be no longer than 50 characters.

The paper includes (a) a title page with full title, name, and contact information for every author, and (b) a separate abstract page.

You have provided 4-5 keywords under the abstract.

At the bottom of the abstract page, if necessary, you have indicated that (a) supplementary materials will be available in an online appendix and (b) any data and materials necessary to replicate analyses in the published paper are available on Dataverse. Two sentences should be sufficient to convey this information. “Thank yous” should be in a separate Acknowledgments section. (Additional details about these various things are below.)

Required file formats are Word or LaTex; if you are sending a LaTex file, be sure to include any related files (a bibliography, for example) as well as a PDF file created from your final version and checked carefully to ensure that special characters and math are displayed correctly.

Note that it is also especially important that any graphics that you submit comply with the art requirements posted on our website.

Length

The length of the final version should be in line with the editor’s directive, and specific cuts (to shorten the manuscript) that the editor recommends should be followed (and, if not, should be noted and explained in the anonymous memo). If you need additional space, you should consider putting nonessential or supplementary materials in an online appendix.

Appendices

You are welcome to have an online appendix associated with your paper. The JOP will host online appendices for published articles. Any online appendices must be submitted as a separate file when your revised manuscript is resubmitted online to Editorial Manager. This allows reviewers of the final version of your manuscript to have access to it.If you choose to have an online appendix, you should refer to its availability in a line at the bottom of the abstract page. A recommended statement would be: “Supplementary material for this article is available in the appendix (or “in appendix A”) in the online edition.” In addition, online-only appendices must be cited at some point in the text.

Data and Replication Materials

Authors of quantitative papers mustsubmit their data and all associated replication files to the JOP Dataverse. Instructions for submitting files can be found here. Authors are encouragedto include additional information such as any specialized software, syntax files, or anything else that competent scholars in the field might need to reproduce the results. Authors may also direct readers to their own webpage for such material in the acknowledgments of their manuscript – but this can only be in addition to, not in lieu of, placing their data in the JOP's repository. A final decision of “Accept” will not be provided until all relevant materials are submitted to Dataverse. A recommended data/replication statement, at the bottom of the abstract page below the supplemental-materials statement, would be: “Replication files are available in the JOP Data Archive on Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/jop).”

Research Involving Human Participants

With the increasing use of experimentation in political science, the JOP is adopting submission guidelines on research involving human participants. If an author’s work involves the use of human subjects, he/she should include a statement that the studies were conducted in compliance with relevant laws and were approved or deemed exempt by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee.In cases where an ethics committee does not exist, the author/s should indicate that the research was conducted in line with the ethical standards contained in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. Should a human-participants statement be necessary, it should be included as a third sentence below the supplementary-materials statement and the data/replication statement at the bottom of the abstract page.

Financial Support

If the authors received any financial support during the production of their manuscript (data collection, leave time, etc.), a statement to that effect should be included. If such a statement is needed, it should appear as a final sentence at the bottom of the abstract page. An example would be: “Support for this research was provided by National Science Foundation grant xxx-yyy.”

Acknowledgments

Please note that the Funding/Replication note required at the bottom of the abstract page is different from the formal acknowledgments of other individuals or institutions who have provided nonfinancial research support or forums for presentation. Any "thank yous" that the author would like included in the published article should be placed in a distinct "Acknowledgments" section immediately preceding the Reference section.A sample Acknowledgment Section might read: "I/we would like to thank Person X, Person Y, and Person Z for blank. Thank you as well to Colleague Q for support and advice. I/we also thank our anonymous reviewers for their feedback. Previous versions of this manuscript were presented at these workshops or conferences.”

Biographical Statement

Please write a brief biographical statement for each author. These statements should take the following form: NAME is a/an/the POSITION at INSTITUTION, CITY, STATE ZIP CODE. Please use abbreviations for the states instead of writing each one out ("AZ" instead of "Arizona," for example). Please insert this information into your manuscript immediately following your References section.

Submitting Your Final Revised Manuscript

When you have completed revisions, please log on to Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/jop/ as an author and upload the revised Author-Identified version of your manuscript (ignore the EM instructions to submit an anonymous version, which only applies to authors whose work we are sending back out for review). You should also upload your online appendix if you have one as a separate file (named clearly as the online appendix), if you have one. After we have reviewed the revised manuscript, we will apprise you of our final decision and inform you of the expected publication date if appropriate.

Finally, when you upload your final revised manuscript, please submit it and the online appendix, if any, to Editorial Manager as either (a) a Word File or (b) a PDF file and the associated LaTex file. LaTeX users should follow the ﻿﻿﻿guidelines prepared by the University of Chicago Press.﻿﻿﻿ Note, LaTeX users must provide all necessary files to compile the manuscript, including:

When the editor and his staff approve the final version, the file will be transmitted to the University of Chicago Press, where it will be copyedited and typeset. Authors are expected to respond promptly to any publication-related queries raised by the press or the JOP editorial office.

Publication Agreement

Authors of accepted manuscripts must complete a Publication Agreement Form and return it with the final accepted manuscript.

We currently have a lag time of about 9-12 months between final acceptance and print publication. But once your manuscript has been through final copyediting, typesetting, and proofs, it will be posted online by the University of Chicago Press. When the print issue in which your paper appears is published, the "Ahead of Print" manuscript will be removed and standard print citation formats should be used.

The JOP is the flagship journal of the Southern Political Science Association. Founded in 1929, the SPSA is dedicated to advancing scholarship in all areas of political science.